He rose to fame as one of the two lead singers of the boy band Westlife, he shared lead vocals with Shane Filan. Before Westlife, Feehily, Filan and Kian Egan were members of the band IOYOU, which released the single "Together Girl Forever".[1]Louis Walsh, the manager of Boyzone, was contacted by Filan's mother and came to know about the group. The group was established on 3 July 1998 with the addition of two more members, Nicky Byrne and Bryan McFadden. Boyzone singer Ronan Keating was brought in to co-manage the group with Walsh. Feehily has also co-written songs, some with the other band members.

Feehily has sung completely solo on songs for the band in some instances:

During live performances, he also sang completely solo for the songs "Oh Holy Night", "Imaginary Diva", "Talk Me Down", "Before It's Too Late", and Boy George's "Il Adore", he has also co-written songs, some with the other band members.

In February 2015 Markus launched his solo career with a radio premiere of his debut single "Love Is a Drug" on RTÉ 2fm in Ireland,[3] the next day the track premiered online, via Wonderland Magazine.[4] Moments after the premiere of the song, it was made available for pre-order on iTunes,[5] with the official video for the track launching on his Vevo channel two weeks later, the song was released on 19 April 2015.[6] He released his debut solo studio album Fire on 16 October 2015, it includes the singles "Love Is a Drug" and "Butterfly".

Pre-orders for his Christmas album began on 17 November 2017, the album was released on the 1 December 2017.

Markus Feehily was born in Sligo, Co Sligo in Ireland, his parents are Marie (née Verdon) and Oliver Feehily. He spent his childhood in a picturesque environment with two younger brothers and many cousins, as a child, singing and playing the tin whistle were important elements in his life. His favourite singer has always been the American super diva, Mariah Carey; in his teenage years, he also enjoyed playing tennis and football.

In August 2005, he publicly revealed he was gay during an interview with the British tabloidThe Sun.[7] Feehily had recognised his sexual orientation when he was 14 or 15 years old,[8] his family, bandmates and close friends knew his sexual orientation.[9][7] Westlife's manager Louis Walsh, however, was unaware of Feehily's sexual orientation when he began managing the group,[10] as the only gay member in Westlife, Feehily had kept his sexual orientation private and never had a boyfriend.[1] Unlike his bandmates, Feehily did not discuss his private life in interviews, although he had dated women prior to his coming out;[1][11] in yet another interview, he told The Sydney Morning Herald that despite the fact that the majority of Westlife's fans are female, there had really been no negative reaction.[12]

During the interview with The Sun, Feehily also announced his romantic relationship with British fashion photographer Kevin McDaid, a member of the now-defunct British boy band V.[7] The pair, who lived together,[1] had been dating since January 2005 after having met at a Cheerios Childline Concert in Ireland. Feehily said that while he did not intend on getting married right away, he was happy to know he could form a civil partnership in Britain with the recent passing of the Civil Partnership Act;[12] in December 2007, Feehily and Kevin appeared on the cover of Attitude. The couple became engaged in February 2010,[13] on 31 December 2011, Feehily announced via his Twitter account that the couple had split up.[14]

Feehily is interested in charity works and supports the charity group Aware, he was shortlisted in 2011 as one of the top 50 most influential gays in United Kingdom.[15] He congratulated his local football club Sligo Rovers on its victory in the 2011 FAI Cup Final.[16]

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Sligo
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Sligo is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of approximately 20,000 in 2014, it is the second largest urban centre in the West of Ireland, the Sligo Borough District constitutes 61% of the countys population of 63,000. Sligo is a historic, cultural, commercial, industrial, retail, served by rail, port and road links, Sligo exerts a significant influence on its hinterland. Sligo is also a popular tourist destination, being situated in an area of outstanding beauty, with many literary. Sligo is the anglicisation of the Irish name Sligeach, meaning abounding in shells or shelly place and it refers to the abundance of shellfish found in the river and its estuary, and from the extensive shell middens in the vicinity. The river now known as the Garavogue meaning little one was originally called the Sligeach. It is listed as one of the seven rivers of Ireland in the 9th century AD tale The Destruction of Da Dergas Hostel. The river Slicech is also referenced in the Annals of Ulster in 1188, the Ordnance Survey letters of 1836 state that cart loads of shells were found underground in many places within the town where houses now stand. The whole area, from the estuary at Sligo, around the coast to the river at Ballysadare Bay, is rich in marine resources which were utilised as far back as the Mesolithic period. The importance of Sligos location in prehistory is demonstrated by the abundance of ancient sites close by, for example, Sligo towns first roundabout was constructed around a megalithic passage tomb at Abbeyquarter North in Garavogue Villas. This is an outlier of the group of monuments at Carrowmore on the Cuil Irra peninsula on the western outskirts of the town. The area around Sligo town has one of the highest densities of archaeological sites in Ireland. It is the place in which all classes of Irish megalithic monuments are to be found together. Knocknarea mountain, capped by the cairn of Miosgan Maeve. Cairns Hill on the edge of the town also has two very large stone cairns. This is the oldest causewayed enclosure so far discovered in Britain or Ireland and it consists of a large area enclosed by a segmented ditch and palisade, and was perhaps an area of commerce and ritual. These monuments are associated with the coming of agriculture and hence the first farmers in Ireland, during the early medieval period the site of Sligo was eclipsed by the importance of the great Columban monastery 5 miles to the north at Drumcliff. By the 12th century there was a bridge and small settlement in existence at the site of the present town, the annalists refer to this Sligo as a sraidbhaile which seems to have consisted of the castle and an attached defensive bawn

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Republic of Ireland
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Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, which is located on the part of the island. The state shares its land border with Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, Saint Georges Channel to the south-east, and it is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The head of government is the Taoiseach, who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by the President, the state was created as the Irish Free State in 1922 as a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. It was officially declared a republic in 1949, following the Republic of Ireland Act 1948, Ireland became a member of the United Nations in December 1955. It joined the European Economic Community, the predecessor of the European Union, after joining the EEC, Ireland enacted a series of liberal economic policies that resulted in rapid economic growth. The country achieved considerable prosperity between the years of 1995 and 2007, which known as the Celtic Tiger period. This was halted by a financial crisis that began in 2008. However, as the Irish economy was the fastest growing in the EU in 2015, Ireland is again quickly ascending league tables comparing wealth and prosperity internationally. For example, in 2015, Ireland was ranked as the joint sixth most developed country in the world by the United Nations Human Development Index and it also performs well in several national performance metrics, including freedom of the press, economic freedom and civil liberties. Ireland is a member of the European Union and is a member of the Council of Europe. The 1922 state, comprising 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland, was styled, the Constitution of Ireland, adopted in 1937, provides that the name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland. Section 2 of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 states, It is hereby declared that the description of the State shall be the Republic of Ireland. The 1948 Act does not name the state as Republic of Ireland, because to have done so would have put it in conflict with the Constitution. The government of the United Kingdom used the name Eire, and, from 1949, Republic of Ireland, for the state, as well as Ireland, Éire or the Republic of Ireland, the state is also referred to as the Republic, Southern Ireland or the South. In an Irish republican context it is referred to as the Free State or the 26 Counties. From the Act of Union on 1 January 1801, until 6 December 1922, during the Great Famine, from 1845 to 1849, the islands population of over 8 million fell by 30%

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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions

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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds

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Piano
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The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. The word piano is a form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument. The first fortepianos in the 1700s had a sound and smaller dynamic range. An acoustic piano usually has a wooden case surrounding the soundboard and metal strings. Pressing one or more keys on the keyboard causes a padded hammer to strike the strings. The hammer rebounds from the strings, and the continue to vibrate at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies by more efficiently coupling the acoustic energy to the air, when the key is released, a damper stops the strings vibration, ending the sound. Notes can be sustained, even when the keys are released by the fingers and thumbs and this means that the piano can play 88 different pitches, going from the deepest bass range to the highest treble. The black keys are for the accidentals, which are needed to play in all twelve keys, more rarely, some pianos have additional keys. Most notes have three strings, except for the bass that graduates from one to two, the strings are sounded when keys are pressed or struck, and silenced by dampers when the hands are lifted from the keyboard. There are two types of piano, the grand piano and the upright piano. The grand piano is used for Classical solos, chamber music and art song and it is used in jazz. The upright piano, which is compact, is the most popular type, as they are a better size for use in private homes for domestic music-making. During the nineteenth century, music publishers produced many works in arrangements for piano, so that music lovers could play. The piano is widely employed in classical, jazz, traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble performances, accompaniment, with technological advances, amplified electric pianos, electronic pianos, and digital pianos have also been developed. The electric piano became an instrument in the 1960s and 1970s genres of jazz fusion, funk music. The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations in keyboard instruments, pipe organs have been used since Antiquity, and as such, the development of pipe organs enabled instrument builders to learn about creating keyboard mechanisms for sounding pitches

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Sony Music
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Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony. It is incorporated as a partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment. The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, in 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. Sony Corporation bought the company in 1987 and renamed it Sony Music Entertainment in 1991, the buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is one of the Big Three record companies, being the second largest after Universal Music Group, in 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several record companies. In 1934, in the midst of Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company, ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off. ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label and Okeh its subsidiary label and this allowed ARCs leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to their former owner Warner Bros. which sold them to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward on the Columbia label and he was succeeded by James Conkling as head of Columbia Records. In 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name, Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label. Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953 and in 1956, Conkling left Columbia and he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. His successor, Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company, and in 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music. In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its international distributor Philips Records with the goal of starting its own global record company. Philips acquisition of US-based Mercury Records in 1961 paved the way for this, elsewhere, CBSs Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963. In 1964, Columbia set out acquiring record companies in countries for its CBS Records International Unit. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution. In late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived and this label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Dates biggest success was Time of the Season by the Zombies, the label was discontinued in 1970

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Syco Music
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Syco Music, also known as Syco Records, is a British record label founded by British music mogul Simon Cowell. It is a subsidiary of Cowells Syco, Syco Music has offices in London and Los Angeles and is home to several artists. Syco has the right to sign winners and finalists of The X Factor. Susan Boyles debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, has sold over 9 million copies, making it one of the best selling releases of the last decade and Sycos most successful release to date. They have signed three of the most successful bands in the world, One Direction, Little Mix, in 2010, Syco began diversifying by adding producer/singer-songwriter Labrinth. Savan Kotecha, who had been writing for Syco acts for several years, also became an A&R Director and set up a joint venture, Syco also began forming closer partnerships with other Sony Music Entertainment UK labels. For the first time, Syco entered into an agreement with Columbia Records that would see them together to launch the career of a The X Factor winner - Matt Cardle. Syco Music and its artists have been the targets of illegal hacking on several separate occasions, in 2009 ahead of the release of Leona Lewiss second album Echo, a number of unfinished demos and leftover songs from the project leaked online. An investigation was launched by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, working with the record label, alexandra Burke was also targeted, having two demo versions of songs from her debut album Overcome leak before the albums release. At the end of March 2010 it was reported that Syco had suffered once again from computer hackers who managed to obtain 14 of Burkes previously unheard studio recordings as well as 26 from Lewis. Following the second incident of leaks, Cowell contacted the FBI to track down those responsible, included in the leaks was a newly recorded version of Burkes All Night Long featuring American rapper Pitbull, which was tipped to be the singers third single in March 2010. According to Burke, the songs were leaked by Two little boys in Germany on work experience and it was later revealed in 2011 that songs recorded for Echo were targeted by the German hacker, Deniz A. also known as DJ Stolen. In July 2010, the Rasch law firm logged a complaint against DJ Stolen for constantly placing hacked songs on the internet. Amongst those songs listed in the complaint was one called Pulse, DJ Stolen was jailed for 18 months in June 2011. In February 2013, it was announced that One Direction would be releasing a version of One Way or Another. However, a version of the song leaked online and on 7 February 2013 Syco launched an investigation. A spokesperson told the press It is very disappointing that the song has been leaked, Syco Music started releasing music as a label in 2004

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Westlife
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Westlife were an Irish boy band, formed in Sligo in July 1998 and disbanded in June 2012. Originally signed by Simon Cowell and managed by Louis Walsh, the second and final line-up consisted of Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily. Brian McFadden was a member from July 1998 until his departure in March 2004, Westlife sold over 50 million records worldwide, a total that included studio albums, singles, video releases, and compilation albums. The group accumulated 14 number-one singles in the United Kingdom and they achieved a total of 26 UK top ten singles over their 14-year career. In 2012, the Official Charts Company listed Westlife 34th amongst the biggest-selling singles artists in British music history, despite their success worldwide, Westlife never managed to break into the U. S. market, achieving only one hit single in 2000, Swear It Again. Based on BPI certifications, the group have sold 11.1 million albums and 6.8 million singles in the UK, the group, managed by choreographer Mary McDonagh and two other informal managers, released a single titled Together Girl Forever. Louis Walsh, the manager of fellow Irish boy band Boyzone, came to know the group after he was contacted by Filans mother, Cowell told Walsh, You are going to have to fire at least three of them. They have great voices, but they are the ugliest band I have ever seen in my life, three members of the band were told they would not be part of the new group, and auditions were held in Dublin where Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden were recruited. The new group, formed on 3 July 1998, was renamed Westside but that name was already in use by another band, in Westlife – Our Story, Byrne revealed that, unlike the others in the group, he was keen to change the name to West High. McFadden also changed the spelling of his name to Bryan to make it easier to sign autographs, Boyzone singer Ronan Keating was brought in to co-manage the group with Walsh. The band then released an EP titled Swear It Again, Westlifes first big break came in 1998 when they opened for Boyzone and Backstreet Boys concerts in Dublin. Later, they won a special Smash Hits Roadshow award at that years Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, in April 1999, the group released their first single, Swear It Again which immediately topped the charts in Ireland and in the UK for two weeks. Flying Without Wings was also included on the soundtrack of the Warner Brothers film, Pokémon and their first album, simply titled Westlife, was released in November 1999 and went to No.2 in the UK. The album was the biggest chart dropper on the top 40 in UK music history when, in December 1999, a fourth, double-side, single was released, I Have A Dream/Seasons in the Sun. It knocked Cliff Richards The Millennium Prayer off the top spot, the fifth and last single from the album, Fool Again, also peaked at #1. Then the group went on a short UK, US and Asian tour in support of their album before releasing a second album. Coast to Coast was released a later and was another No.1 UK album. It became the countrys 4th biggest selling album of 2000, the album was preceded by a duet with Mariah Carey singing the Phil Collins classic Against All Odds and the original song My Love

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Shane Filan
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Shane Steven Filan is an Irish singer and songwriter. He was one of the singers and frontman of boy band Westlife until the group disbanded in 2012. After the group disbanded, Filan released his solo album, You and Me. Filan was born on 5 July 1979 to Peter and Mae Filan and grew up in Sligo, the youngest of seven children, he has three brothers and three sisters, Finbarr, Peter Jr, Yvonne, Liam, Denise and Mairead. His parents owned a diner in Sligo named Carlton Café located on Castle Street, Filan attended Summerhill College, a Catholic school, with Kian Egan and Mark Feehily. All three of them participated in a production of Grease when they were about 12. The Hawkswell Theatre became a significant part of their careers, Filan was a fan of Michael Jackson as a child, and claimed the singer inspired him to pursue a career in music. Before Westlife, Egan and Feehily were with Filan in a known as I. O. U. with other Sligonians Derrick Lacey, Graham Keighron. He partly wrote the IOYOUs song Together Girl Forever, for 6 months, Shanes mother, Mae Filan, tried to phone Louis Walsh. Eventually, she was able to speak to him and talked about her sons band,3 of them were dropped and the other 3, Shane, Kian and Mark, joined ventures to finding 2 more slots for the band. Then they were joined by Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden to form Westside, the name of the band then changed to Westlife as there were already a number of bands with the name Westside. Filan, along with Feehily, was the singer in Westlife. Their first album was released in November 1999, titled Westlife, with Westlife, Filan has received twenty-eight platinum discs and sold 40 million records worldwide. On 20 October 2011, Westlife announced and decided to split, Filan showed interest of being a solo music artist as his daily living. In December 2011, press said Filan is close to sealing a deal as several UK record labels are battling it out to sign the singer. Shane and his manager Louis Walsh, have been in talks with record companies in London that month. Theres four, possibly five labels so far who have made it clear that they want to sign Shane, said a music source, Hes an incredible singer and he already has a very good idea of the kind of album he wants to make. He and Louis have been in meeting after meeting this week and are looking at their options and its looking very good for Shane – he has his choice of record deals

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Kian Egan
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Kian John Francis Egan is an Irish musician, best known as a former member of boy band Westlife. He is a coach on The Voice of Ireland and won the series of Im a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here. Egan, during a long hiatus from Westlife in 2008, launched a new venture with Louis Walsh to put together. Their debut album reached number 6 on the Irish Albums Chart and number 8 on the UK Albums Chart, however, just four months later, they were dropped by Mercury Records. His debut single Home, a cover of the track by band Daughtry, had its first exclusive play on BBC Radio 2 on lunch time with Terry Wogans show, the album has peaked to number 2 on the Irish Singles Chart and number 9 on the UK Albums Chart. In May 2014, Egan released Ill Be as the single from the album. Egan is one of four coaches on The Voice of Ireland, however, his dreams of winning the show went to tatters as he threw his lot in with Jim Devine, from Northern Ireland. This immediately put him at a disadvantage to the contestants as, ahead of the final, viewers in Northern Ireland could not download his single. Egan was left fuming and in need of support from Sharon Corr as he expressed his opinion on the unfairness of it all and had huge rows about it but to no avail. In June 2012, Egan announced in an interview with the Sunday Life that he was looking at doing a TV show with Sky on surfing, later reports suggested that the show would be eight episodes long and would broadcast on Sky1 later in the year. In July 2012, Egan presented This Mornings Hub on a regular basis, on 21 October 2012, Egan co-presented the revamped version of Surprise Surprise, but did not return the following year. On 17 November 2013, Egan took part in the series of Im a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here. And on 8 December, he was crowned King of the Jungle, from 5 to 9 January 2015, Egan and Angela Griffin co-hosted Fat Pets, Slimmer of the Year on ITV. Egan was born to Patricia and Kevin and he is the fifth of seven children. He attended Summerhill College secondary school in Sligo, where he met fellow band members Mark Feehily and he is the cousin of Filans wife, Gillian Walsh. Egan married English actress and Girl Thing and Wonderland member Jodi Albert on 8 May 2009, due to illness, Egans father was unable to attend the marriage ceremony after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, and died shortly after. On 31 July 2011, the announced they were expecting their first child. Westlifes official Facebook page announced that Albert had given birth to a baby boy, the family live in Strandhill, County Sligo

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Louis Walsh
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Michael Louis Vincent Walsh known as Louis Walsh is an Irish entertainment manager and judge on British television talent show The X Factor. Originally from Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Walsh moved to Dublin to get a start in the music industry and he managed Johnny Logan, Boyzone and Westlife, three of Irelands most successful pop artists in the 1990s and 2000s. In later life, Walsh began a career as a television talent pundit. He has been a judge on The X Factor since the inception in 2004. He has mentored the Groups category six times and the Overs category three times and he was the winning judge of the shows second series, mentoring Shayne Ward. He has also appeared on Youre a Star, Popstars and Popstars, Walsh has also guest judged on Britains Got Talent a number of times and on The X Factor USA in 2012. In the 1990s, Walsh decided to create an Irish version of Take That, when Ronan Keating announced he wanted to take a break from Boyzone, Walsh continued to manage his career. Keating achieved a one hit with Life Is a Rollercoaster in 2000 while his album sold 4.4 million copies. Keating and Walsh later agreed to part company as Keatings solo career reached an all-time high, Walsh then went back to the boy band formula to create Westlife, which Keating co-managed with Walsh for the first couple of Westlifes number one singles and albums. Despite an earlier bitter feud, Walsh had a reconciliation with Boyzone, including Ronan Keating. Louis Walsh and Boyzone in which they explored a network of subterranean streets beneath Edinburgh, in December 2012, he became Marseilles manager. Walshs first television work was in 2001, in the Irish version of Popstars, the following year Walsh appeared as a judge on the UK ITV show Popstars, The Rivals with Pete Waterman and Geri Halliwell. Walsh went head-to-head with Waterman on the show with his girlband Girls Aloud battling it out with Watermans boy band One True Voice. Girls Alouds debut single Sound of the Underground reached number one in the UK. Walsh managed the band to achieve a million sales while their debut album went platinum. Walsh also frequently appears on various talent shows on Raidió Teilifís Éireann and he covered for Simon Cowell as a judge on Britains Got Talent during series fours Birmingham auditions in February 2010, due to Cowell being ill. He again filled in for David Hasselhoff at the London auditions in the series when Hasselhoff was unavailable due to appearing in pantomime. Walsh also appeared on The X Factor USA series two auditions in Kansas City covering for Simon Cowell, in January 2012, Walsh appeared on the ITV documentary series The Talent Show Story where he was interviewed about being a judge on The X Factor and Popstars The Rivals. Fellow Popstars judge Pete Waterman also appeared on the programme as well as past and present X Factor judges, including Dannii Minogue, Simon Cowell, Kelly Rowland and Gary Barlow

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Boyzone
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Boyzone are an Irish boy band. Their most famous line-up was composed of Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating, Boyzone have had 21 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 22 singles in the Irish charts. The group have had 6 UK number one singles and 9 number one singles in Ireland with 12 of their 24 singles in the UK being in the UK Top 2, Boyzone are one of the most successful bands in Ireland and the United Kingdom. They were put together in 1993 by Louis Walsh, who is known for managing Johnny Logan. Before even recording any material, Boyzone made an appearance on RTÉs The Late Late Show, Boyzone made a comeback in 2007, originally with the intention of just touring. The band have sold 2 million records since their return, Gately died on 10 October 2009 of natural causes while on his holiday in the Spanish island of Majorca with his civil partner, Andrew Cowles. To date, Boyzone have released four albums and seven compilation albums. Based on BPI certifications, they have sold over 13 million records in the UK alone, in 1993, an advertisement appeared in many Irish newspapers calling for auditions to form a new Irish boy band group. The advertisements were sent out by theatrical manager Walsh who was looking to make an Irish Take That following on from their success, the auditions were held in The Ormond Center, in Dublin, in November 1993. More than 300 people replied to the advertisement, at the auditions the applicants were asked to sing the song Careless Whisper by George Michael. Each audition would be taped and watched again to judge the applicants performance, out of the 300,50 were selected for a second audition. For the second audition the applicants where asked to sing two songs, including one of their own choice with a backing tape, out of this 50,10 were selected for a third audition. In the end, Ronan Keating, Stephen Gately, Keith Duffy, Richard Rock, Shane Lynch, Graham originally was rejected but would later join after the departure of Rock. Rock left citing musical differences with Ronan Keating, Keating initially faced a lot of opposition from his parents and teachers. He was planning to move to New York to study in college on a sports scholarship, in the end Ronan decided to give up his education and go along with Boyzone. Duffys parents were against their son throwing away a solid and promising career, Louis Walsh set about trying to get a deal with a good record company but it would take many rejection letters before the boys would be signed. In 1994 Lynch and Duffy were involved in a fatal car crash. Walsh was reportedly furious, and drew up contracts for all the boys to sign and it reached No.3 in the Irish Charts

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Ronan Keating
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Ronan Patrick John Keating is an Irish recording artist, singer, musician, and philanthropist. He debuted in 1994 alongside Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Shane Lynch and his solo career started in 1999 and has recorded nine albums. He gained worldwide attention when his single When You Say Nothing at All was featured in the film Notting Hill, Ronan Keating was born on 3 March 1977, the youngest of five children. He grew up on the Northside of Dublin and County Meath and his father Gerry Keating was a lorry driver, his mother Marie was a mobile hairdresser. He has one sister, Linda, and three brothers, Ciaran, Gerard and Gary and he was a track and field athlete and represented Ireland in several tournaments, winning the All Ireland under-13 200m title. He also worked as an assistant in a shoe shop just as his siblings emigrated to the United States, also, Keating auditioned for Stars in Their Eyes. Keating, Keith Duffy, Richard Rock, Shane Lynch, Mark Walton, Walton and Rock would later leave the group before being replaced by Michael Graham. The group performed in clubs and pubs before being signed by PolyGram in 1994. The group also released a version of Love Me for a Reason which would peak on several charts. In 1998, his mother died at the age of 51 from breast cancer, at the age of 21 years, Keating married Yvonne Connolly in April 1998 and together, the couple have three children, Jack, Marie and Ali. The couple are now divorced after Keating had an affair, in 1999, while still a member of Boyzone, Keating recorded a version of When You Say Nothing at All for the motion picture Notting Hill. The single peaked at one in the UK charts, leading to a successful solo career. Keating released his solo album, titled Ronan, in 2000. The album was given negative reviews, although it sold over 750,000 copies. It debuted at one on the UK Albums Chart, and has been certified four-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for sales of 1.2 million copies. In the singers native Ireland, the album debuted at number two, the album also became a commercial success in other European countries, where it charted within the top ten of eight countries. Keating collaborated with major stars, including Elton John, Lulu, LeAnn Rimes. Keating and Paul Brady co-wrote the 2001 hit single The Long Goodbye, one of Keatings most loved hits amongst fans, Keating and Brady won the BMI European song-writing award for the single

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World of Our Own
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World of Our Own is the third studio album by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released through RCA Records on 12 November 2001 and it reached number one in the United Kingdom and includes the singles Queen of My Heart, World of Our Own, Bop Bop Baby, and the final single from the groups last album, Uptown Girl. Evergreen was later covered by Will Young as his winners single for the 2002 Pop Idol competition, the album went 4x Platinum in the UK and is currently the fourteenth biggest selling boy band album ever in the UK. In January 2005, the album was re-released in a 2-in-1 box set with the previous album

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...Allow Us to Be Frank
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. Allow Us to Be Frank, a Rat Pack tribute album, was the fifth studio album and the first cover album by Irish boyband Westlife and first album since the departure of Bryan McFadden. It was released on 8 November 2004, and peaked at two in Ireland and number three in the United Kingdom. Allow Us To Be Frank was number twenty-four on the 2004 year-end album charts. The album features songs made popular by Frank Sinatra such as The Way You Look Tonight, Come Fly with Me, Moon River, Summer Wind and it also includes the Nat King Cole song, When I Fall in Love. It was recorded with a 60-piece orchestra at Phoenix Studios in Wembley, smile was released as the albums first single on 4 November 2004. The physical single features the video, and B-sides White Christmas, Fly Me To The Moon was released as the albums second single on 20 December 2004. The single was released digitally, featuring the video, as well as an exclusive B-side, Beyond The Sea. Aint That A Kick In The Head was released as the albums third, the physical single features the video, as well B-side Moon River. On the Japanese edition, the song The Way You Look Tonight is in two versions, the Westlife version is track 5, and the duet with Joanne Hindley is bonus track 14

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Where We Are
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Where We Are is the ninth studio album and tenth album overall by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released on 27 November 2009 in Ireland and 30 November 2009 in the UK through S Records, RCA Records, where We Are is the groups first album following a break from music in 2008. The album was preceded by the lead single What About Now, a cover of the Daughtry song, the group collaborated with numerous notable producers for the album, notably Ryan Tedder of the pop rock band OneRepublic, Jim Jonsin, Greg Wells and Sam Watters, among others. Where We Are is also notably the first Westlife album not to have Steve Mac, the album was met with unfavorable reviews, although it was still commercially successful, debuting at number two at the UK Albums Chart. Despite the high peak, it was the first Westlife album not to peak at one since their 2004 album Allow Us to Be Frank peaked at number three. Before Christmas 2008, they wrote a letter to their website saying that 2009 was going to be the most exciting year yet for Westlife, the recording process of their tenth album started on 1 July 2009. Byrne said that there will be many first-time producers and writers for the upcoming album and he also wanted to have collaboration works with Chris Martin of Coldplay who happens to be a big Westlife fan. Filan talks about the content of the album and stated, A different direction might be a bit wrong, I think its still pop music, but theres a different variation on it. One massive thing is we worked with different producers, who never worked with before. There are thirteen songs on the album and twelve of them are originals, theres more tempo, more rocky songs, some more American songs, some darker songs on there with darker lyrics. Its the best production weve had on any other album, the strings, the music is just on another level. Even if youre not a Westlife fan but youre a music fan, on their new biography posted on their official website, it has been added that the recording sessions began in LA, with a completely fresh team of producers and songwriters. The first song recorded was the ballad, I’ll See You Again. Ill See You Again was recorded by Ross at Metropolis Studios, weve been experimenting with a fresh vibe on this record. After 11 years we see this as two of the Westlife story. The song Shadows which has confirmed to be included on the album was written by Ryan Tedder. The album also contains an in memory of section to Nikki Bryne and Kevin Egan, on 25 October 2009, during the X Factor results show, Westlife performed What About Now. It was released online the same day, on 26 October they performed on GMTV and were interviewed in addition to hosting a webchat, with a further interview on The One Show on 30 October 2009

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Gravity (Westlife album)
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Gravity is the tenth and final studio album by the Irish pop band Westlife. It was released on 22 November 2010 in the United Kingdom, John Shanks produced each song, barring the bonus track on the Japanese edition. The album was preceded by the single, Safe, which was released at 14 November 2010. This is also the final album under Syco Music, Syco decided that there will be no second single from the album. As of November 2011, the album had sold 358,943 in the UK, on 19 July 2010, it was reported by RTÉ that the group will be teaming up with Shanks. A Westlife insider said, Its a major coup for Westlife to get this producer - hes produced all the big acts from Bon Jovi to the Backstreet Boys and they wanted him for their last album but werent able to get him. Theyre thrilled that hes agreed to work with them on this album and it also stated that the recording process started in July 2010. The band also confirmed the recording and mixing was finished in October 2010. They recorded the songs in Los Angeles, California, Dublin, Ireland, on 17 September 2010, Egan flashed that the first single for the album was already picked by Cowell and a 30-second snippet was played on X Factor UK. Afterwards, Feehily initiated the #westlife11album and #westlifeSAFE as a topic on Twitter which was followed by others worldwide to be a top trending topic. The album was released on 15 November 2010. “Both us and Take That go for epic pop songs and it would feel odd to have a fifth person back on stage with us. Afterwards he said hed wanted to work with us for a time, but he just couldnt do the Take That thing. Filan also revealed that the group is currently in the process of selecting 12 or 13 songs for the final track listing from a pool of 16, with all. On 22 October 2010, Shanks stated that they have finished the Westlife record, Shanks stated that the album ended up with two covers in it. On 27 October 2010, the main release date was changed to 22 November 2010. In the November 2010 issue of Hello Magazine they told them about their competition with Take That and Walsh and Cowells involvement in the album, on 2 November 2010, the 30 second snippet of each songs from the album were posted on Amazon. co. uk. On 5 November 2010, In Demand FM played exclusively the full track of Beautiful Tonight with an interview of the band, on 7 November 2010, they performed I Will Reach You on BBC Radio 2. On 14 November 2010, RTÉ 2fm exclusively played I Will Reach You, The Reason, in an interview with AOL Music UK, Westlife described the creative process of the album as breath of fresh air

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Boy George
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George Alan ODowd, known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and photographer. He is the singer of the Grammy and Brit Award-winning pop band Culture Club. He was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to the early 1980s and his music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae. He was lead singer of Jesus Loves You during the period 1989–1992 and his 1990s and 2000s-era solo music has glam influences, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop. More recently, he has released fewer music recordings, splitting his time between songwriting, DJing, writing books, designing clothes, and photography. Boy George was born George Alan ODowd in Eltham, London, on 14 June 1961, to Jeremiah and Dinah ODowd, George was a follower of the New Romantic movement which was popular in Britain in the early 1980s. He lived in various squats around Warren Street in Central London and he and his friend Marilyn were regulars at Blitz, a London nightclub run by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan. The pop artists that inspired him were Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie, T. Rex, Roxy Music, Boy Georges androgynous style of dressing caught the attention of music entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren, who arranged for George to perform with the group Bow Wow Wow. Going by the stage name Lieutenant Lush, his tenure with Bow Wow Wow proved problematic with lead singer Annabella Lwin, George eventually left the group and started his own band with bassist Mikey Craig. They were joined by Jon Moss and then guitarist Roy Hay, the band recorded demos that were paid for by EMI Records but the label declined to sign them. Virgin Records expressed interest in signing the group in the UK for European releases, while Epic Records handled the US and they recorded their debut album Kissing to Be Clever and it was released in 1982. The single Do You Really Want to Hurt Me. became an hit, reaching No.1 in a dozen countries around the world. This was followed by the Top 5 hit Time in the US and UK and this gave Culture Club the distinction of being the first group since the Beatles to have three Top 10 hits in the US from a debut album. Their next album, Colour By Numbers was an success, topping the UK charts. The single Church of the Poison Mind became a Top 10 hit, and Karma Chameleon became an hit, peaking at No.1 in sixteen countries. It hit No.1 in the US where it stayed for three weeks and it was the best-selling single of the year in the United Kingdom, where it spent six weeks at No.1. Victims and Its a Miracle were further Top 5 UK hits, the bands third album Waking Up with the House on Fire was not as big a hit as its predecessors. Although the first single, The War Song, was a No.2 hit in the UK, George then provided a lead vocal role on the Band Aid international hit single Do They Know Its Christmas

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The Boston Globe
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The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1872 by Charles H. Taylor, it was held until 1973. The company was acquired in 1993 by The New York Times Company, in 2011, a BostonGlobe. com subscription site was launched. In 2013, the newspaper and websites were purchased by John W. Henry, the Boston Globe has been awarded 26 Pulitzer Prizes since 1966, and its chief print rival is the Boston Herald. The Boston Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen, including Charles H. Taylor and Eben Jordan, the first issue was published on March 4,1872, and cost four cents. Originally a morning daily, it began a Sunday edition in 1877, in 1878, The Boston Globe started an afternoon edition called The Boston Evening Globe, which ceased publication in 1979. By the 1890s, The Boston Globe had become a stronghold, in 1964, Tom Winship succeeded his father, Larry Winship, as editor. The younger Winship transformed The Globe from a local paper into a regional paper of national distinction. He served as editor until 1984, during which time the paper won a dozen Pulitzer Prizes, the Boston Globe was a private company until 1973 when it went public under the name Affiliated Publications. It continued to be managed by the descendants of Charles H. Taylor, in 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$1.1 billion, making The Boston Globe a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times parent. The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial New York Times Company stock, Boston. com, the online edition of The Boston Globe, was launched on the World Wide Web in 1995. Consistently ranked among the top ten websites in America, it has won numerous national awards. Under the helm of editor Martin Baron and then Brian McGrory, the Boston Globe is credited with allowing Peter Gammons to start his Notes section on baseball, which has become a mainstay in all major newspapers nationwide. In 2004, Gammons was selected as the 56th recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA, and was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 31,2005. In 2007, Charlie Savage, whose reports on President Bushs use of signing statements made national news, the Boston Globe has consistently been ranked in the forefront of American journalism. The Boston Globe hosts 28 blogs covering a variety of topics including Boston sports, local politics, on April 2,2009, The New York Times Company threatened to close the paper if its unions did not agree to $20,000,000 of cost savings. Some of the cost savings include reducing union employees pay by 5%, ending pension contributions, the Boston Globe eliminated the equivalent of fifty full-time jobs, among buy-outs and layoffs, it swept out most of the part-time employees in the editorial sections. The papers other three major unions had agreed to concessions on May 3,2009, after The New York Times Company threatened to give the government 60-days notice that it intended to close the paper

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Rat Pack
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The Rat Pack was a supergroup of actors originally centered on their leader, Frank Sinatra. Later it was revealed by Sinatra that Joey Bishop headed the bunch, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, they appeared together on stage and in films in the early 1960s, including the movies Oceans 11, Sergeants 3, and Robin and the 7 Hoods. Sinatra, Martin, and Davis were regarded as the lead members. The name The Rat Pack was first used to refer to a group of friends in New York, several explanations have been offered for the famous name over the years. Rat Pack may also be a version of Holmby Hills Rat Pack. Visiting members included Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Nat King Cole, Robert Mitchum, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Lena Horne, Jerry Lewis and Cesar Romero. In his autobiography The Moons a Balloon, David Niven confirms that the Rat Pack originally included him but neither Sammy Davis, the 1960s version of the group included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, Juliet Prowse, Buddy Greco, the post-Bogart version of the group was reportedly never called that name by any of its members – they called it the Summit or the Clan. The Rat Pack was a used by journalists and outsiders. Often, when one of the members was scheduled to give a performance, the marquees of the hotels at which they were performing as individuals would read, for example, DEAN MARTIN - MAYBE FRANK - MAYBE SAMMY as seen on a Sands Hotel sign. Rat Pack members played a role in campaigning for Kennedy and the Democrats, Lawford had asked Sinatra if he would have Kennedy as a guest at his Palm Springs house in March 1962, and Sinatra went to great lengths to accommodate the President. When Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the association with Mafia figures such as Sam Giancana. Kennedy instead chose to stay at rival Bing Crosbys estate, which further infuriated Sinatra, Lawford was blamed for this, and Sinatra never again had a good word for from that point onwards. Lawfords role in the upcoming 4 for Texas was written out, and his part in Robin and the 7 Hoods was given to Bing Crosby. It has since been broadcast on Nick at Nite as part of The Museum of Television & Radio Showcase series and released on DVD as part of the Ultimate Rat Pack Collection, Live & Swingin. In 1981, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. appeared together in the film Cannonball Run and this would be the last time that the three would appear in a movie together. In December 1987, at Chasens restaurant in Los Angeles, Sinatra, Davis, at the press conference to announce the tour, Martin joked about calling the tour off, and Sinatra rebuked a reporter for using the term Rat Pack, referring to it as that stupid phrase. Martin had since become increasingly dependent on alcohol and prescription drugs, Davis had hip replacement surgery two years previously, and been estranged from Sinatra because of Davis use of cocaine

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Robbie Williams
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Robert Peter Robbie Williams is an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995 and he has also had commercial success as a solo artist. Williams rose to fame in Take Thats first run in the early-to-mid-1990s, Williams also released seven number-one singles. On 15 July 2010, he rejoined Take That, the groups subsequent album Progress became the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century at the time. Gary Barlow has since confirmed that Williams had left for a time, although the departure was amicable. He is the best-selling British solo artist in the United Kingdom, in 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame after being voted the Greatest Artist of the 1990s. According to the British Phonographic Industry, Williams has been certified for 19.5 million albums and 6.8 million singles in the UK as a solo artist. Williams also topped the 2000–2010 UK airplay chart, racking up almost 50% more plays than the Sugababes at number 2, in 2014 he was awarded the freedom of his home town of Stoke-on-Trent, as well as having a tourist trail created and streets named in his honour. Williams was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and his maternal grandfather was Irish and hailed from Kilkenny. Williams attended St Margaret Ward Catholic School in Tunstall, before attending dance school UKDDF in Tunstall and he participated in several school plays, and his biggest role was that of the Artful Dodger in a production of Oliver. In 1990, the sixteen-year-old Williams was the youngest member to join Take That, according to the documentary Take That, For the Record, his mother read an advertisement seeking members for a new boy band and suggested that he try out for the group. He met fellow member Mark Owen on the day of his audition/interview with Nigel Martin-Smith, during the heights of the bands popularity, Williams was known as the extrovert and cheeky practical joker of the band. However, he had conflicts with Martin-Smith over the rules for Take That members. In November 1994, Williamss drug abuse had escalated to the point of his having a drug overdose the night before the group was scheduled to perform at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Barlow explained in interviews that Williams had given up trying to offer creative input, during one of the last rehearsals before the tour commenced, the group confronted Williams about his attitude and stated they wanted to do the tour without him. He agreed to quit and left the group in July 1995, despite the departure of Williams, Take That completed their Nobody Else Tour as a four-piece band. They later disbanded on 13 February 1996, Williamss 22nd birthday, shortly afterwards, Williams was photographed by the press partying with the members of Oasis at Glastonbury Festival. Following his departure, he became the subject of shows and newspapers as he acknowledged his plans to become a solo singer

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Love Is a Drug (Markus Feehily song)
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Love Is a Drug is a song by Irish singer and songwriter and former member of Westlife Markus Feehily. The song was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download On 19 April 2015 through Harmoney Entertainment and it was released as the lead single from his debut studio album Fire. The song was written by Markus Feehily, Steve Anderson and Tinashé Fazakerley, the song has peaked at number 65 on the Irish Singles Chart and number 55 on the UK Singles Chart. After Westlife split up in June 2012 Markus launched his solo career, the next day the track premiered online, via Wonderland Magazine. Moments after the premiere of the song, it was available for pre-order on iTunes. In an interview with Digital Spy talking about the song, Markus said I think, honestly and its not the only sound I could ever do, but its just me being myself in the studio. If I ever went to write a Westlife song, you be like, Oh lets do this kind of beat or whatever, again, if Id written those kind of lyrics, it would just never have worked. When Westlife finished, the book was thrown out of the window in terms of songwriting. I took away all the formulas and just went hell for leather at it, Love Is A Drug is one of the examples of what came out when I did that. A music video to accompany the release of Love Is a Drug was first released onto YouTube on 4 March 2015 at a length of three minutes and thirty-nine seconds. The video was directed by Naroop Jhooti

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Vevo
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Vevo hosts music videos from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment syndicated on YouTube and its website, with Google and Vevo sharing advertising and similar benefits. EMI also licensed its library of videos for Vevo shortly before its launch, originally, Warner Music Group was reported to be considering hosting its content on the service after it launched, but formed an alliance with rival MTV Networks. The concept for Vevo was described as being a service for music videos. The sites other revenue sources include a store and referral links to purchase viewed songs on Amazon Music. UMG acquired the domain name vevo. com on November 20,2008, SME reached a deal to add its content to the site in June 2009. The site went live on December 8,2009, and that month became the number one most visited music site in the United States. In June 2012, Vevo launched its Certified awards, which honors artists with at least 100 million views on Vevo, on March 12,2013, Vevo launched Vevo TV, an advertising-supported internet television channel running 24 hours a day, featuring blocks of music videos and specials. The channel is available to viewers in North America and Germany. Vevo has planned launches in other countries, after revamping its website, Vevo TV later branched off into three separate networks, Hits, Flow, and Nashville. Vevo shut down the service during the first half of 2016 as part of a site wide redesign, during the run of the service, its schedule and programming was heavily repetitive. Many videos would play twice within an hour and a majority of the videos shown were current, programming shows such as the Top10Now and Vevo Lift would air several times per day. Since the service has been shut down, its apps that havent been updated just play the Top10Now in an infinite loop. Vevo is available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The website was scheduled to go worldwide in 2010, but as of January 1,2017, Vevos official blog cited licensing issues for the delay in the worldwide rollout. Most of Vevos videos on YouTube are viewable by users in other countries, the Vevo service in the United Kingdom and Ireland was launched on April 26,2011. On April 16,2012, Vevo was launched in Australia, on August 14,2012, Brazil became the first Latin American country to have the service. It was expected to be launched in six more European and Latin American countries in 2012, Vevo launched in Spain, Italy, and France on November 15,2012. Vevo launched in the Netherlands on April 3,2013, and on May 17,2013, in September 29,2013, Vevo updated its iOS application that now includes launching in Germany

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Tabloid (newspaper format)
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A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet. There is no standard size for this newspaper format, the term tabloid journalism refers to an emphasis on such topics as sensational crime stories, astrology, celebrity gossip and television, and is not a reference to newspapers printed in this format. Some small-format papers with a standard of journalism refer to themselves as compact newspapers. Larger newspapers, traditionally associated with higher-quality journalism, are called broadsheets, in common usage, tabloid and broadsheet are frequently more descriptive of a newspapers market position than physical format. The Berliner format used by many prominent European newspapers is sized between the tabloid and the broadsheet, in a newspaper context, the term Berliner is generally used only to describe size, not to refer to other qualities of the publication. The word tabloid comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as Tabloid pills in the late 1880s, the connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small compressed items. A1902 item in Londons Westminister Gazette noted, The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals, thus tabloid journalism in 1901 originally meant a paper that condensed stories into a simplified, easily absorbed format. The term preceded the 1918 reference to smaller sheet newspapers that contained the condensed stories, a tabloid is defined as roughly 17 by 11 inches and commonly half the size of a broadsheet. Tabloid newspapers, especially in the United Kingdom, boast a very high degree of variation as far as target market, political alignment, editorial style, thus, various terms have been coined to describe the subtypes of this versatile paper format. There are, broadly, two types of tabloid newspaper, red top and compact. The distinction is largely of editorial style, both red top and compact tabloids span the width of the spectrum from socialism to capitalist conservatism. The red top tabloid is, for many, the example of the format. Red tops tend to be written with a simplistic, straightforward vocabulary and grammar, their layout, more often than not, in the extreme case, red top tabloids have been accused of lying or misrepresenting the truth to increase circulation. Poll results are often predicted by red top papers, examples of British red top newspapers include The Sun, the Daily Star, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Sport. In contrast to red top tabloids, compacts use a style more closely associated with broadsheet newspapers. In fact, most compact tabloids formerly used the paper size. The term compact was coined in the 1970s by the Daily Mail, one of the newspapers to make the change. The purpose behind this was to avoid the association of the word tabloid with the flamboyant, the early converts from broadsheet format made the change in the 1970s, two notable British papers that took this step at the time were the Daily Mail and the Daily Express

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The Sun (United Kingdom)
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The Sun is a tabloid published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since The Sun on Sunday was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation, as a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, the Sun had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, but in late 2013 slipped to second largest Saturday newspaper behind the Daily Mail. It had a daily circulation of 2.2 million copies in March 2014. Approximately 41% of readers are women and 59% are men, the Sun has been involved in many controversies in its history, including its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster. Regional editions of the newspaper for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are published in Glasgow, Belfast, on 26 February 2012, The Sun on Sunday was launched to replace the closed News of the World, employing some of its former journalists. Roy Greenslade issued some caveats over the May 2015 figures, the Sun was first published as a broadsheet on 15 September 1964, with a logo featuring a glowing orange disc. It was launched by owners IPC to replace the failing Daily Herald, the new paper was intended to add a readership of social radicals to the Heralds political radicals. Supposedly there was an immense, sophisticated and superior class, hitherto undetected and yearning for its own newspaper. As delusions go, this was in the El Dorado class, launched with an advertising budget of £400,000, the brash new paper burst forth with tremendous energy, according to The Times. Its initial print run of 3.5 million was attributed to curiosity and the advantage of novelty, by 1969, according to Hugh Cudlipp, The Sun was losing about £2m a year and had a circulation of 800,000. Seizing the opportunity to increase his presence on Fleet Street, he made an agreement with the print unions and he assured IPC that he would publish a straightforward, honest newspaper which would continue to support Labour. IPC, under pressure from the unions, rejected Maxwells offer and he would later remark, I am constantly amazed at the ease with which I entered British newspapers. Murdoch found he had such a rapport with Larry Lamb over lunch that other potential recruits as editor were not interviewed, Lamb wanted Bernard Shrimsley to be his deputy, which Murdoch accepted as Shrimsley had been the second name on his list of preferences. Lamb hastily recruited a staff of about 125 reporters, who were selected for their availability rather than their ability. This was about a quarter of what the Mirror then employed, Murdoch immediately relaunched The Sun as a tabloid, and ran it as a sister paper to the News of the World. The Sun used the printing presses, and the two papers were managed together at senior executive levels. The new tabloid Sun was first published on 17 November 1969, with a front page headlined HORSE DOPE SENSATION, an editorial on page 2 announced, Todays Sun is a new newspaper

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The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia, the newspaper is published six days a week. It is available at outlets in Sydney, regional New South Wales, Canberra, the Sydney Morning Herald includes a variety of supplements, including the magazines Good Weekend, and Sunday Life. By February 2016, average circulation had fallen to 104,000, similarWeb rates the site as the fifth most visited news website in Australia and as the 42nd newspapers website globally, attracting more than 15 million visitors per month. In 1931 a Centenary Supplement was published, the original four-page weekly had a print run of 750. In 1840, the newspaper began to publish daily, in 1841, an Englishman named John Fairfax purchased the operation, renaming it The Sydney Morning Herald the following year. Fairfax, whose family were to control the newspaper for almost 150 years, based his editorial policies upon principles of candour, honesty and we have no wish to mislead, no interest to gratify by unsparing abuse or indiscriminate approbation. During the decade 1890, Donald Murray worked there, the SMH was late to the trend of printing news rather than just advertising on the front page, doing so from 15 April 1944. Of the countrys metropolitan dailies, only The West Australian was later in making the switch, in 1949, the newspaper launched a Sunday edition, The Sunday Herald. Four years later, this was merged with the newly acquired Sun newspaper to create The Sun-Herald, in 1995, the company launched the newspapers web edition smh. com. au. The site has grown to include interactive and multimedia features beyond the content in the print edition. Around the same time, the organisation moved from Jones Street to new offices at Darling Park and built a new printing press at Chullora, the SMH has since moved with other Sydney Fairfax divisions to a building at Darling Island. In May 2007, Fairfax Media announced it would be moving from a format to the smaller compact or tabloid-size, in the footsteps of The Times. Fairfax Media dumped these plans later in the year, however, in June 2012, Fairfax Media again announced it planned to shift both broadsheet newspapers to tabloid size, in March 2013. Fairfax also announced it would cut staff across the group by 1,900 over three years and erect paywalls around the papers websites. The subscription type is to be a model, limiting readers to a number of free stories per month, with a payment required for further access. In July 2013 it was announced that the SMHs news director, Darren Goodsir, would become Editor-in-Chief, on 22 February 2014, the final Saturday edition was produced in broadsheet format with this too converted to compact format on 1 March 2014. Ahead of the decommissioning of the plant at Chullora in June 2014

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ChildLine Concert
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The ChildLine Concert is an annual pop music charity event which has taken place in Ireland since 1997. As the name suggests the money raised by the concert is donated to the young persons charity, ChildLine and many of the attendants are also children. In 2003 the concerts had raised over €1 million, in 2007 that had risen to €2.5 million, in 2010 that had risen to €3.8 million and by 2013 €4.6 million had been raised. In 2012 €440,000 was raised and in 2013 organisered hoped to match that figure by raising another €400,000, on 16 December 2008 the event was held at the The O2 in Dublin, becoming the first ever concert to take place at the venue. The ChildLine Concert is an event to raise money for ChildLine. The performers, organisers and venue all provide their services for free in order for all the money from sales to go to the financial support. The ChildLine Concert is also known as the Cheerios ChildLine Concert as it is sponsored by Cheerios. Throughout its history many acts have performed including Robbie Williams, The Script, JLS, Girls Aloud, Enrique Iglesias, S Club 7, McFly, Little Mix, the first ChildLine Concert was held at the Point Theatre, Dublin in 1997. By 2003 over €1 million had been raised, in 2013 it was announced that €4.6 million had been raised from the concerts between 1997 and 2012. Acts who performed at the Point Theatre on 26 January included Samantha Mumba, Sugababes, Girls Aloud, Six, Busted, Mankind, Broken Hill, Westlifes Nicky Byrne, Mark Feehily and Bryan McFadden hosted the event which was televised live on RTÉ Television. Acts who performed at the O2 on 16 December included Enrique Iglesias, Boyzone, Shayne Ward, Anastacia Scouting for Girls, The Script, Alphabeat, The Saturdays, Eoghan Quigg, the show was hosted by Westlifes Nicky Byrne. The 2009 event was held at The O2 featuring Westlife, Alexandra Burke, JLS, Taio Cruz, Cascada, The Saturdays, The Boulevard, the event was hosted by Liam McKenna. The event took place on Wednesday 18 November, the concert was broadcast on TV3 on 18 December 2010. On 5 September 2011 it was announced that the 2011 Childline Concert would take place on 12 November 2011 at The O2 in Dublin and it was hosted once again by Nicky Byrne and featured Westlife, Jedward, The Wanted, JLS, Cher Lloyd and Parade. Westlife announced in October 2011 that they were retiring from music, on 5 October 2012 it was announced that the 15th annual Childline Concert would take place on 24 November 2012 at The O2 in Dublin. It was hosted by Keith Duffy and Glenda Gilson and the acts took part included The Script, JLS, Little Mix, Jedward, Lawson, Stooshe, Hudson Taylor. Irish The X Factor contestant Mary Byrne also appeared to with Level 5 to sing on their charity single, the concert was broadcast on TV3 on 1 December 2012. The 16th annual ChildLine Concert took place on 20 November 2013 at The O2 in Dublin, hosted by Westlifes Nicky Byrne the lineup included The Wanted, Shane Filan, Little Mix, Union J, Conor Maynard and B*Witched

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Civil union
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A civil union, also referred to by a variety of other names, is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage. These unions have been established in a number of countries since the late 1990s, in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, they have since been replaced, and in a number of other countries supplemented, by same-sex marriage. Civil unions are often seen by campaigners as a first step towards legalizing marriage for same-sex couples, while civil unions are predominantly established for both opposite-sex and same-sex couples, in a number of countries they are available to same-sex couples only. In Brazil, civil unions were first created for opposite-sex couples in 2002, same-sex marriages performed abroad are commonly recognised as civil unions in jurisdictions that only have the latter. The terms used to designate civil unions are not standardized, the exact level of rights, benefits, obligations, and responsibilities also varies, depending on the laws of a particular country. Some jurisdictions allow same-sex couples to adopt, while others forbid them to do so, Civil unions are not seen as a replacement for marriage by many in the LGBT community. Marriage in the United States is a union, but a civil union, as it has come to be called, is not marriage. It is a proposed hypothetical legal mechanism, since it doesnt exist in most places, to some of the protections. Theres no good reason to do that, the California Supreme Court, in the In Re Marriage Cases decision, noted nine differences in state law. Civil unions are commonly criticised as being separate but equal, critics say they segregate same-sex couples by forcing them to use a separate institution. A New Jersey commission which reviewed the civil union law reported that the law invites and encourages unequal treatment of same-sex couples. Some have suggested that creating civil unions which are open to opposite-sex couples would avoid the accusations of apartheid and these have still been criticised as being separate but equal by former New Zealand MP and feminist Marilyn Waring as same-sex couples remain excluded from the right to marry. Many supporters of same-sex marriage state that the word marriage matters, former US Solicitor General and attorney in the Perry v. Many also contend that the fact that civil unions are not understood can cause difficulty for same-sex couples in emergency situations. Countries, territories and cities which introduced civil unions for same-sex and/or opposite-sex couples, the City of Villa Carlos Paz allowed it from 2007. And since 2009 the city of Río Cuarto allows Civil Unions too, all levels of Australian Governments under nearly all Australian statutes do recognise same-sex couples as de facto couples as unregistered co-habitation or de facto status since 2009. From 1 July 2009 Centrelink recognised same-sex couples equally regarding social security – under the common-law marriage, Cohabitation grants 112 benefits as family entities in Brazil since 2002. It is known as união estável when both parts are legally authorized to marry, and as concubinato when at least one part is legally prohibited from doing so

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Attitude (magazine)
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Attitude is a British gay lifestyle magazine owned by Stream Publishing Limited. It is sold worldwide as a magazine, and as a digital download for the iPad and iPhone via the App Store. The first issue of attitude appeared in May 1994, a separate Thai edition has been published since March 2011, editions in Belgium and the Netherlands launched in February 2017. Many of these covers have been world exclusives, Attitude published a cover featuring Alan Turing in October 13 as part of its Attitude Awards edition. Tony Blair gave the first interview a serving Prime Minister has ever given a gay publication in May 2005 and he gave his second ever gay press interview to mark attitudes 15th birthday in May 2009. In February 2010 former Conservative party leader David Cameron appeared on the cover of attitude giving his first interview to a gay publication. For the August 2009 issue, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe gave his first interview to a gay publication in which he announced his support for British political party the Liberal Democrats and he said, I just loathe homophobia. Its just disgusting and animal and stupid and its just thick people who cant get their heads around it and are just scared, I grew up around gay people entirely. I was the child in my class who had any experience of homosexuality or anything like that. In May 2005, on the eve of the UK general election, Attitude frequently acquires exclusive interviews within the gay market. Will Young has only ever given gay press interviews to attitude, in 2006, The Scissor Sisters gave their first print interview for their new album to the magazine with an exclusive five cover edition, each cover featuring a different member of the band. Take That also gave their first magazine interview to attitude after reforming, the magazine is often themed, notably with a celebrity naked issue which featured amongst others Max Beesley, Philip Olivier and Will Mellor. In July 2005 the magazine launched fashion supplements as a spin-off publication, the March 2010 issue was themed as the titles first Older Issue with EastEnders star John Partridge on the cover. The February 2017 edition was the first Body Issue, in a 2009 interview, Blair questioned the Popes attitude towards homosexuality, arguing that religious leaders must start rethinking the issue. Attitude features a mixture of gay and straight cover stars, as of February 2017, Attitude had published 280 issues with more than 300 covers. More than half of the stars have been gay. The longest stretch straight celebrities have not appeared on the cover is three months, in 2005, former editor Adam Mattera won Best Mens Magazine editor of the year at the BSME awards. It was the first time that a gay magazine editor won the prize, Mattera was short-listed again for the prize in 2006

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Sligo Rovers F.C.
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Sligo Rovers Football Club is a professional Irish football club playing in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. The club was founded in 1928 and have been in the League of Ireland since 1934, the club is a co-operative venture, owned by the people of Sligo. Rovers have played at The Showgrounds since their inception and they recently won a third FAI Cup in four years and in the season previous to this recent cup win became the 2012 Premier Division Champions, winning the title with two games to spare. In total they have won three titles, five FAI Cups and two League cups. On 27 February 2012 Rovers had announced an international sponsorship deal with local car dealers Connollys Volkswagen. Sligo Rovers Football Club was formed on 17 September 1928 as a result of an amalgamation of two sides, Sligo Town and Sligo Blues. Their first game was a 9-1 victory against Ballyshannon in Donegal on 23 September 1928 in the round of the Connacht Cup. The club, elected to the League of Ireland in 1934, hails from Sligo, the home colours are red with white sleeve uppers, with white shorts and socks while the away colours are white with red sides, red shorts and red socks. The third alternative kit is navy with red sleeve uppers, nacy shorts, the club started well by winning the FAI Junior Cup in their first ever season, beating Grangegorman in the final at the Showgrounds 3-0. The following season also brought silverware in the shape of the Connacht Junior Cup with Rovers beating Galway in the final 1-0 after a replay. After this success the club moved up another level the season by joining the Leinster Senior League and played their first game away to UCD in August 1932. The club performed well in their first season at this level eventually finishing third as Brideville won the league. This season also saw The Bit O Red make their first appearance in the FAI Cup, the next year brought yet more glory with the club winning the Leinster Senior League in only their second year at this level. They did so by beating Distillery in a play-off at Tolka Park 3-2 after the teams had finished the league level on points. Following this achievement the club was elected to the Free State League on 28 June 1934 along with Waterford as both Shelbourne and Cork Bohemians resigned from the league, the team finished a highly credible third in that season with Gerry McDaid finishing as top scorer. During this season local Paddy Monaghan won two caps for the Irish national team and is still the man to have achieved this while at the club. The 1936–37 season began in spectacular fashion with Sligo winning their first 11 games, trainer and captain that year was Jimmy Surgeoner in his only season at the club. Top scorer was Englishman Harry Litherland whose record of 19 league goals that season was surpassed by Eoin Doyle in 2011 season scoring 20 league goals, the club also won the Dublin City Cup this year beating Dundalk in the final

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2011 FAI Cup Final
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The 2011 Ford FAI Cup Final was the 88th final of the FAI Cup, the oldest domestic football competition in Ireland. The match took place on 6 November 2011 at Aviva Stadium in Dublin for the second consecutive year, the two clubs contesting the 2011 final were Premier Division side, Sligo Rovers and First Division side, Shelbourne, with the victors guaranteeing a berth in the UEFA Europa League. The 2011 final was Sligo Rovers tenth and Shelbournes eighteenth FAI Cup Final in their 116 years of existence, the game took place on Sunday,6 November 2011 at 3. 30pm local time. The match was aired live on RTÉ Two from 3pm to 6. 40pm, Sligo retained the cup after a four one win in a penalty shoot-out. For Sligo Rovers, it was their 3rd final in row, Sligo Rovers won the last cup final in 2010, beating Shamrock Rovers on penalties 2-0, having lost the 2009 final 2-1 to the now defunct Sporting Fingal. The last time Shelbourne reached the final was in 2000, the game in which they beat Bohemians F. C. to win the cup, Rovers have a total of 3 titles and Shels have a total of 7 titles. Wicklow-based referee Richie Winter was named as the referee for the 2011 FAI Cup Final on 25 October 2011, winters previous assignments in the FAI Cup Final included a position as fourth official for the 2008 FAI Cup Final. His assistants for the 2011 final were Mark Gavin from Kildare, Dermot Broughton from Limerick, since both sides first-choice kits are red, the toss off a coin was used to decide which team had choice of kit. Shelbourne won the toss and wore their home kit of red shirt and white shorts, while Sligo Rovers wore their away kit of white shirts,2011 FAI Cup 2011 League of Ireland Cup Final In Pictures,2011 FAI Ford Cup final

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Westlife discography
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Irish pop vocal group Westlife has released ten studio albums, two box sets, thirty-two singles, twelve promotional singles, six compilation albums and forty-four music videos. Their biggest selling album is their first Unbreakable compilation, followed by Coast to Coast and their biggest selling video is Where Dreams Come True, which has sold 240,000 copies to date. In 2012, the Official Charts Company listed Westlife 34th amongst the biggest-selling singles artists in British music history, as of August 2015, the group has sold 50 million records worldwide. They accumulated a total of 26 top ten hits including 14 number one singles and 11 top 5 albums in the United Kingdom, notes The If I Let You Go, Evergreen and Bop Bop Baby music videos were exclusively released by a music channel in the Philippines. The music video for My Private Movie was released in Asia only

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UK Albums Chart
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The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company on Fridays and it is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and published in Music Week magazine, and on the OCC website. To qualify for the Official Albums Chart the album must be the correct length and it must be more than three tracks or 20 minutes long and not be classed as a budget album. A budget album costs between £0.50 and £3.75, additionally, various artist compilations – which until January 1989 were included in the main album listing – are now listed separately in a compilations chart. Full details of the rules can be found on the OCC website. In the 1970s the new chart was revealed at 12,45 pm on Thursdays on BBC Radio 1. Since October 1993 it has included in The Official Chart show from 4,00 –5,45 pm on Fridays. A weekly Album Chart show was licensed out to BBC Radio 2 and presented by Simon Mayo,2005 saw a record number of artist album sales with 126.2 million sold in the UK. In February 2015, it was announced that, due to the sales of albums and rise in popularity of audio streaming. Under the revised methodology, the Official Charts Company takes the 12 most streamed tracks from one album, the total of these streams is divided by 1000 and added to the pure sales of the album. This calculation was designed to ensure that the chart continues to reflect the popularity of the albums themselves. The final number one album on the UK Albums Chart to be based purely on sales alone was Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons, on 1 March 2015, In the Lonely Hour by Sam Smith became the first album to top the new streaming-incorporated Official Albums Chart. The most successful artists in the charts depends on the criteria used, as of February 2016, Queen albums have spent more time on the British album charts than any other musical act, followed by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, U2 and ABBA. By most weeks at one, however, The Beatles lead with a total of 174 weeks. The male solo artist with the most weeks at one is Presley with a total of 66 weeks. Presley also holds the record for the most number one albums by a solo artist and most top ten albums by any artist. Madonna has the most number one albums by a female artist in the UK, though this includes the Evita film soundtrack which was a cast recording, Adele is the female solo artist with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 37 weeks. Queens Greatest Hits is the album in UK chart history with 6 million copies sold as of February 2014

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Fire (Markus Feehily album)
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Fire is the debut solo studio album by Irish singer-songwriter and former Westlife vocalist Markus Feehily. The album was released on October 16,2015, via Harmoney Entertainment, the album includes the singles Love is a Drug and Butterfly. The next day, the track premiered online, via Wonderland Magazine, moments after the premiere of the song, it was made available for pre-order on iTunes, with the official video for the track launching on his Vevo channel two weeks later. Love is a Drug was officially released on April 19,2015, Feehily released an instant great track from the album, Find My Way, on July 14,2015. Feehily said of the album, Calling my album Fire is a two-sided thing, so it has both positive and negative sides to it just like actual fire. I was also so pleased to work some of the best songwriters and producers in the industry. They gave me the opportunity to write and record the type of music that Ive always wanted to release, working with them was both a pleasure and an honour. Feehily worked with a number of collaborators for the project, including Mojam, Jim Eliot, Jakwob and The Nexus

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Irish Independent
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The Irish Independent is the flagship publication of Independent News & Media and Irelands largest-selling daily newspaper. Aside from its material, the Independent also publishes a weekly supplement in the Irish language called Seachtain. It is a sister of the broadsheet Sunday Independent, since May 2012, the Irish Independent has been controlled by billionaire Denis OBrien after OBrien acquired a majority shareholding of parent company. Traditionally a broadsheet newspaper, it introduced a compact size in 2004. The Irish Independent described the 1916 Easter Rising as insane and criminal, in 1924, the traditional nationalist newspaper, the Freemans Journal, merged with the Irish Independent. Until October 1986 the papers masthead over the editorial contained the words incorporating the Freemans Journal, during the Spanish Civil War, the Irish Independents coverage was strongly pro-Franco, the paper criticized the De Valera government for not intervening on behalf of the Spanish Nationalists. In the 1970s, it was taken over by former Heinz chairman Tony OReilly, under his leadership, it became a more populist, market liberal newspaper—populist on social issues, but economically right-wing. By the mid-nineties its allegiance to Fine Gael had ended, in the 1997 general election, it endorsed Fianna Fáil under a front page editorial, entitled Its Payback Time. On 27 September 2005, a fortnight after the paper published its centenary edition and he was replaced by Gerry ORegan, who had until then been editor of the Irish Independents sister paper, the Evening Herald. The newspapers previous editor Stephen Rae was also editor of the Evening Herald and was appointed editor in September 2012. Fionnan Sheahan was appointed editor in January 2015, Denis OBrien successfully acquired a majority shareholding the newspaper parent company INM in May 2012. The New Irish Writing Page is the creative writing feature of its kind in any Irish or British newspaper. The Irish Independent, in cooperation with the Institute of Education, produces Exam Brief and this supplement is published in February, March and April each year. Excluding The Sun and the Daily Mirror, most of the content of which are produced in the United Kingdom, iNM-owned or partly owned titles have 58% of the newspaper market on Sunday. With the closure of the Evening Press, the Independents Evening Herald is now the only Irish national evening newspaper, another sister paper is the Sunday Independent. Other newspapers in the Independent News & Media group include the Irish Daily Star, the Independent News and Media Group had a major share in the Sunday Tribune, a Sunday broadsheet before its closure in 2011. The Independent News and Media Group also owns online business directory site Your Local that provides business information on approximately 100,000 Irish businesses. Circulation was 162,582 for the period January to December 2006, circulation was 149,906 for the period July to December 2009

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Official Charts Company
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The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association. Since 1 July 1997, CIN and then the OCC have compiled the official charts, prior to this date, the charts were produced by a succession of market research companies, beginning with the British Market Research Bureau in 1969, and later by Gallup. All of the OCCs charts are published weekly on Friday nights, from 3 August 1969 until 5 July 2015, the chart week ran from Sunday to Saturday. Genre-specific charts include UK Dance Chart, UK Indie Chart, UK R&B Chart, UK Rock Chart, the Scottish Singles and Albums Charts ― and the former Welsh Singles and Albums Chart ― appears in listings within the Official Charts Company. It is a regional listing reflecting how sales towards the UK Singles Chart, the Welsh Singles and Album Chart served the same purpose in Wales. It also charts the UK DVD Chart and UK Budget Album Chart, while their music charts are now Friday to Thursday, their video charts remain Sunday to Saturday. On 5 September 2008, the Official UK Charts Company rebranded itself as the Official Charts Company and it later dropped the word Company and became just Official Charts. From May 2012, a new chart was launched – the Official Streaming Chart and this counts audio streams from streaming services Spotify, Deezer, Blinkbox Music, Napster, amongst others. In April 2015, the UKs first vinyl record chart was launched by the Official Charts Company due to the surge of interest in the sector. The chart was launched following the growth of the sector in the UK for the year in a row. Beginning in 2017 the Official Charts Company changed its methodology for calculating the Top 40, prior to January 2017,100 streams counted as one sale of a song. From January onward, the ratio became 150,1, UK Albums Chart UK Singles Chart UK Video Charts UK Singles Downloads Chart UK Album Downloads Chart British Phonographic Industry Official Charts Company website

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The News Letter
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The News Letter is one of Northern Irelands main daily newspapers, published Monday to Saturday. It is the oldest English language general daily newspaper still in publication, the newspapers editorial stance and readership, while originally republican, is now strongly unionist. Its primary competitors are the Belfast Telegraph and the Irish News, the News Letter has changed hands several times since the mid-1990s, and since 2005 is owned by the Johnston Press holding company Johnston Publishing. The full legal title of the newspaper is the Belfast News Letter, founded in 1737, the Belfast News Letter was printed in Joys Entry in Belfast. The Joys were a family of Huguenot descent who added much to eighteenth-century Belfast, francis Joy, who founded the paper, had come to Belfast early in the century from the County Antrim village of Killead. In Belfast, he married the daughter of the town sovereign, in 1737, he obtained a small printing press which was in settlement of a debt, and used it to publish the town’s first newspaper at the sign of ‘The Peacock’ in Bridge Street. The family later bought a mill in Ballymena, and were able to produce enough paper not only for their own publication. Originally published three times weekly, it became daily in 1855, the title is now located at two addresses - a news section in Donegall Square South in central Belfast, and a features section in Portadown, County Armagh. Before the partition of Ireland, the News Letter was distributed island-wide, historical copies of the Belfast News Letter, dating back to 1828, are available to search and view in digitised form at the British Newspaper Archive. The paper publishes weekly and infrequent supplements, such as Farming Life. It also prints many titles for publishers including Trinity Mirror. It also prints the Ulster-Scots Agency publication, The Ulster-Scot, in the period December 2010-June 2011, it had an average daily circulation of 23,492. It fell to 20,755 for January to June 2013

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 …

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Grand piano by Louis Bas of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France, 1781. Earliest French grand piano known to survive; includes an inverted wrestplank and action derived from the work of Bartolomeo Cristofori (ca. 1700) with ornately decorated soundboard.